[Marxism] Melbourne socialist councillor 'a real community leader'
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Re: [Marxism] WaPo: Sanders, who launched career on protest votes, dismisses Gary Johnson and Jill Stein as protest votes
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The description of Sanders as "one of the most electorally successful non-major party candidates in United States political history" is amusing. What he did as a "non-major party candidate" was pretty marginal because he never took on the task of building a rival party. ML _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The uncontrolled demolition of the Truther brain | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Over the past five years I have monitored various pro-Assad websites in order to keep track of the amen corner’s latest talking points. At various times I have read Global Research, World Socialist Website and Moon of Alabama towards that end but never simultaneously since that would overload my circulatory and nervous systems to dangerous levels. About three months ago I began monitoring a new website after one of my FB friends, who disagrees with me on Syria but like so many people is quite good on other questions, posted a link to an article on something called Off-Guardian that is focused on exposing the Guardian newspaper. As you might expect, they serve up articles crossposted from RT.com and other media associated with the “axis of resistance”. Given the generally fact-free environment of Off-Guardian, I am surprised nobody has started something called Off-Off-Guardian. full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/09/18/the-uncontrolled-demolition-of-the-truther-brain/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Griffin on Mitchell, 'Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * -- Forwarded message -- From: H-Net Staff Date: Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 11:07 AM Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Griffin on Mitchell, 'Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War' To: h-rev...@h-net.msu.edu Nancy Mitchell. Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War. Cold War International History Project Series. Stanford Stanford University Press, 2016. 880 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9385-8. Reviewed by Benjamin Griffin (United States Military Academy) Published on H-War (September, 2016) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey Nancy Mitchell's Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race in the Cold War is a phenomenal addition to the scholarship of the Cold War. Drawing heavily on archival research conducted in the United States, Britain, and South Africa and on documents from Cuba and Zimbabwe, the book presents an in-depth and engaging international history of President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. Mitchell does a commendable job of providing context, ensuring that the book is readily accessible regardless of a reader's expertise. It is an essential and enjoyable read for any historian interested in the late Cold War or modern Africa. The book provides a much-needed, exhaustive examination of US policy in Africa. Mitchell moves the account easily between the Horn of Africa and southern Africa, providing an in-depth study of the areas where the United States most actively engaged. What is most remarkable about this book is the ease with which it captures the very different dynamics at work in the two regions. Mitchell deftly demonstrates how local actors in Ethiopia and Somalia sought to play the Americans and Soviets against one another to achieve their own aims. The objectives and issues at stake closely resembled those of other Cold War struggles in the developing world. _Jimmy Carter in Africa_ effectively builds on the work of Odd Arne Westad's_ Global Cold War_ (2005). It shows that the major actors had varying degrees of desire and commitment, resulting in an inconsistent and ultimately detrimental policy toward the region. Rhodesia proved more complicated. Noting that "the domestic politics of race" infused the issue, Mitchell shows the difficulty of both the Ford and Carter administrations in developing a viable strategy to bring about majority rule (p. 8). Mitchell expands on the themes of Thomas Borstelmann's _Cold War and the Color Line _(2001), by showing how racial tensions caused the spheres of international and domestic policy to merge. Rhodesia becomes a central issue in the fight between the executive and legislative branches, restricting the options of the Carter administration. _Jimmy Carter in Africa_ furthers this narrative through its treatment of Andy Young, Carter's controversial ambassador to the United Nations. Mitchell portrays Young in a nuanced fashion. Though largely sympathetic to him, the author takes care to note how his candidness with the press complicated Carter's efforts in Rhodesia by drawing congressional and public ire. _Jimmy Carter in Africa _takes aim at several common interpretations of the Carter administration. Mitchell paints Carter as a "dedicated Cold Warrior" throughout his presidency, who consistently followed an orthodox version of containment in Africa. While agreeing that Carter's demeanor contributed to misperceptions, Mitchell argues that the president was an "inept idealist." The book is largely successful in showing that Carter's twin desires for "racial justice" in Rhodesia and his "deep Cold War instincts" were more compatible than they are often portrayed (p. 8). Mitchell also compellingly places Carter back at the center of his own administration, showing him to be a driving force behind his foreign policy. The internal turmoil between Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's national security advisor, and Cyrus R. Vance, his secretary of state, that marks many accounts of Carter's policy process is absent in the book. At times Mitchell advances these revisions to Carter's image too far; however, the book still offers a welcome and fresh perspective on how the administration operated. In judging Carter's policy toward Zimbabwe, Mitchell declines to moderate her sense that the policy was a "Cold War victory" in light of the later "murderous thuggery" of President Robert Mugabe (p. 679). This lets the Carter administration off too easily. While Mitchell's sense that it is not fair to judge a policy entirely by its outcome is accurate, it does not mean that results should be entirely absent from its study. Questions about why the administration did not understand Mugabe's true nature are both fair and important. Similarly,
[Marxism] RESOLUTION of the Roundtable of trade union and left-wing activists in Odesa (Ukraine)
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://zahist.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/resolution_odesa_eng/ RESOLUTION of the Roundtable of trade union and left - wing activists in Odesa, 10 September 2016 5 November 2015 the Parliament of Ukraine has adopted in the first reading the draft of new Labour Code . As it became clear later , parliament speaker of that time Mr . Volodymyr Groisman has fooled MPs insisting that adoption of the Labour Code is EU demand for visa - free regime for the citizens of Ukraine . Ukrainian trade union and left-wing activists immediately correctly declared this draft of new Labour Code as predator and anti-worker one. Also we adopted the decision that independent trade unions should immediately take part in the work of the Working group of Parliament committee on the issues of social policy employment and pension provision for making impossible sharp worsening of the freedoms and rights of workers and trade unions via adoption of this draft of new Labour Code. Unfortunately, real picture was completely different and very unpleasant. The job of the Working group was absolutely hidden and opaque for Ukrainian society and independent trade unions, where the representatives of employers and sub-controlled to oligarchic influences “official” Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (FTUU) in fact, betrayed the interests of wide layers of Ukrainian workers. Because of extreme cloudiness of the Labour Code preparation for the second reading Ukrainian society still doesn’t know, which propositions from the trade unions were taken into account by the profile committee headed by Mrs. Liudmyla Denysova. At the present time we have the information that the most blatant and shameful norms of the Labour Code weren’t change and are being prepared for the voting in the second reading. Even its brief list is very impressive: Article 86 of the draft allows the possibility of outrageous mass firing of the employees under the employer’s wish without any possibilities of their defense свавільних масових скорочень працівників по волі роботодавця без жодних варіантів їх захисту. Article 92 of the draft lets employers to fire workers, which serve financial and material values “because of losing the confidence”, even if it’s not connected with the job. Article 92 of the draft lets employers to fire the worker, employed in the educational area for making “immoral deed”, even if this deed took place not at the work. It’s clear that “morality” and “immorality” will be decided exclusively by employer. Article 158 of the draft allows attraction of some categories of the workers to the job in holiday and festive days without their agreement. The same Article 158 of the draft deprives the employees of the double-paying for job on holidays. Article 65 of the draft lets the employers to move the workers to other workplace (even to other city) without their agreement. Article 30 of the draft lets the employers to conduct the video and audio surveillance over the workers during the whole working day, roughly ignoring the basic human right for private life. Article 108 of the draft deprives single mothers of presently existing defense and lets the employers to roughly fire them because of any reason. Article 291 of the draft lets attract women with children to night works, the works on holiday and festive days and attract them to overtime works, depriving women with children from the guarantees of defense acting at the present time. Article 58 of the draft sets the fact that labour contract is provided to the employee during 7 days since beginning of the work, i.e. it provokes the employers to using “fraud” schemes, where the employees will work 6 days for free and then will not be adopted for the work because “they’re not good enough for this job”. One of the most blatant points is the norm of Article 12 of the draft, where all legislation volume of labour regulation, which falls outside the limits of the Labour Code, is transferred to so-called “employer normative acts”, which are adopted exclusively by the employer and should not be coordinated with trade unions. Generally trade unions rights are considerably limited in this draft; and it could lead to immediate destruction of whole trade union movement in Ukraine because of impossibility of court and trade union defense from illegal firing. In particular, it’ll be possible to fire the employee without preliminary agreement of trade union committee. As many as 52 article of the Labour Code draft determine the coordination of particular employer’s action with “trade union committee”, in sin
[Marxism] WaPo: Sanders, who launched career on protest votes, dismisses Gary Johnson and Jill Stein as protest votes
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This is worth looking at for the embedded youtube video alone. Too bad that Bernie Sanders no longer exists... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/16/bernie-sanders-who-launched-career-on-protest-votes-dismisses-gary-johnson-and-jill-stein-as-protest-votes/?tid=sm_fb _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
